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A  LOOSE  LEAF 

MISSIONARY 
SCRAP-  BOOK 


Its  Value  and  Construction 


Piiblifilied  by  the 

DOMESTIC  and  FOKEKJIV  MISSIONAK  Y  SOCIETY 
of  the  PROTESTANT  EPISCOPAL  CHURCH 
asi  FOURTH  AVENUE,  NEW  YORK 

No.  3014  I  M.  S.  P.  Feb.  07 


A  LOOSE  LEAF  MISSIONARY 


•  SCRAP-BOOK: 

Why  Yo  u  Need  It 

a.  Facts  are  classified,  compact,  and  al¬ 
ways  ready  for  immediate  use. 

h.  Facts  can  be  reclassified  by  sep¬ 
arating  and  rearranging  the  leaves.  This 
is  easily  done  by  pressing  the  springs, 
untying  the  cords  or  bending  the  brass 
clamps  that  hold  them  together. 

c.  The  scrap-book  (or  part  of  it  in  a 
separate  cover)  can  be  given  to  any  one 
who  is  asked  to  write  a  missionary  paper, 
thus  providing  him  in  the  smallest  pos¬ 
sible  compass  with  all  the  facts  about  our 
work  in  a  given  place. 

d.  For  the  convenience  of  leaders 
who  have  to  meet  criticisms  of  missions 
by  detailed  knowledge  of  particular 
places,  the  value  of  such  a  scrap-book  is 
very  great.  People  who  think  they  do 
not  believe  in  missions  can  easily  be  won 
over  by  definite  facts.  It  is  an  easy  mat¬ 
ter  to  ask  them:  which  missions  do  you 

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not  believe  in?  which  missionary  so¬ 
ciety  in  the  country  named  ?  Ask  if 
they  have  ever  seen  the  station  or  the 
missionaries  they  criticise;  where  they 
found  their  information,  etc.  These 
questions  are  usually  enough  to  show 
them  that  they  have  a  very  vague  idea 
as  to  the  source  of  their  own  impres¬ 
sions.  Then  they  are  generally  very 
glad  to  let  some  one  else  talk  a  little. 
That  is  the  time  to  tell  the  definite  and 
interesting  facts  of  mission  work  that 
have  warmed  your  own  faith  and  love, 
whether  in  the  particular  place  under 
discussion  or  in  another  country  is  a 
matter  of  detail.  But  you  must  have 
facts  to  put  in  the  place  of  their  theories 
or  you  have  lost  your  chance.  The  scrap¬ 
book  of  classified  missionary  facts  will 
become  the  arsenal  from  which  you  draw 
your  most  useful  ammunition.  Critics 
often  trust  a  statement  in  a  magazine 
like  the  Atlantic  Monthly  more  than 
they  trust  one  in  a  missionary  book  or 
paper. 


How  to  Make  It 

I.  Covers.  The  kind  made  for  loose- 
leaf  business  ledgers  is  too  expensive  for 
general  use,  but  covers  made  for  college 


note-books  with  eyelet  holes  in  the  cover 
corresponding  to  holes  punched  in  the 
paper  are  lo\F-priced  and  satisfactory. 
Home-made  covers  can  be  substituted. 

II.  Paper,  (a)  The  size  varies  ac¬ 
cording  to  taste;  but  have  it  sufficiently 
large  to  hold  all  ordinary  illustrations, 
and  also  to  allo'w  for  the  pasting  in  of 
clippings,  and  to  hold  three  parallel  col¬ 
umns  of  printing,  when  necessary  {e.g,. 
Twelve  by  nine  inches).  If  covers  are 
to  be  bought,  see  that  the  paper  is 
punched  and  cut  to  fit  them. 

(h)  Cheap  paper  has  been  found  just 
as  satisfactory  for  the  scrap-book  as  any 
other,  and  in  some  ways  is  better  for  use 
in  case  clippings  need  to  be  removed,  as 
the -paper  tears  instead  of  the  clippings. 

(c)  Stiff  fly-leaves  of  different  colors 
can  be  used  to  advantage  for  separating 
the  material  on  one  topic  from  that  on 
another. 

III.  Glassification.  The  most  con¬ 
venient  method  is  by  place  and  date ;  and 
under  each  place  by  institution  and  date. 
In  this  way,  for  instance,  all  information 
about  Shanghai  is  placed  together,  and 
in  the  Shanghai  material  all  connected 
with  Jessfield  is  put  together;  and  this 
material  is  further  classified  under  such 


headings  as  St.  John’s  College,  St. 
Mary’s  Hall,  St.  Mary’s  Orphanage,  etc. 
The  same  system  would  be  applied  to 
other  localities.  Facts  not  peculiar  to 
any  one  place  are  arranged  by  subject 
{e.g.f  The  Character  of  Missionaries; 
The  Character  of  the  Convert;  The  Con¬ 
vert  Converting  Others;  Criticisms  An¬ 
swered,  etc.). 

IV.  (a)  Method  of  Clipping.  Take 
The  Spirit  of  Missions,  for  example. 
Secure  two  copies,  if  possible,  and  cancel 
with  a  pencil  mark  all  the  odd-numbered 
pages  of  the  first  copy  and  the  even- 
numbered  pages  of  the  second  copy. 
This  will  prevent  confusion  later  on. 
Suppose  you  want  for  your  scrap-book 
simply  the  material  on  China.  You  have 
then  but  to  consider  printed  matter 
about  it  which  is  not  cancelled,  turning 
from  one  copy  to  the  other,  whenever  in 
reading  you  would  turn  a  page.  In  this 
way  you  go  on  through  the  two  copies  of 
the  magazine  and  cut  out  everything  on 
China,  and  leave  in  them  everything  on 
every  other  subject  untouched  and  ready 
for  the  formation  of  a  scrapbook  on 
other  countries.  If  two  copies  of  an 
article  on  missions  cannot  be  secured, 
clippings  can  be  pasted  so  as  to  show  two 


sides.  This  is,  however,  less  convenient. 

(6)  Date  the  clippings.  Write  on  the 
margin  of  the  article  the  date  and  name 
of  the  publication  containing  it,  before 
cutting  it  out. 

(c)  Read  the  article  carefully. 

(d)  Divide  it,  if  necessary,  according 
to  the  scheme  of  classification  which  you 
wish  to  follow ;  but  if  you  divide  an  arti¬ 
cle  see  that  each  part  is  labelled  as  to 
date  and  source  before  you  cut  and  paste 
it.  (Unidentified  clippings  have  little 
force  with  critics.) 

(e)  Paste  in  your  scrap-book,  lightly 
at  the  four  corners,  and  fasten  the  leaves 
together  into  your  cover. 

W/io  can  Mahe  It 

Scrap-books  can  be  made  by  members 
of  a  missionary  society,  and  the  process 
greatly  increases  their  missionary  infor¬ 
mation.  They  can  also  be  made  by  in¬ 
valids  and  others  who  wish  to  do  some¬ 
thing  for  their  Church  and  are  not  able 
to  work  through  the  usual  organizations. 

Where  to  Keep  It 

When  made,  the  scrap-book  should  be 
placed  among  the  reference  books  of  the 
missionary  library. 


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